The past few days, I've been working on a presentation for the Vircomm Summit, a gathering of the online community management industry, which will take place in London this Thursday. Rather than showing a whole bunch of industry folk stuff… Continue Reading
A few weeks ago I appeared, along with Dan Sands from Bite Communications, in a PR Week Videocast about the importance of Social Media Guidelines for staff:
I've been involved in helping CNNi, a client, organise a panel discussion on the role of mobile phones in news gathering, journalism and the consumption of news. The event, which has Journalism.co.uk as an online media partner, will take place… Continue Reading
Yesterday I gave a lecture on entrepreneurial journalism at City University, where I'm a Visiting Fellow. It's not full of answers, only some background info on how we got to where we are (journalists having to think creatively around the… Continue Reading
In a couple of weeks I'll be giving a lecture at City University, where I'm a Visiting Journalism Fellow, on Entrepreneurial Journalism. My intention isn't to offer any answers, just point out some opportunities to a group of 100 MA… Continue Reading
I'm frequently asked, by our clients as well as the MA Journalism students I occasionally teach as part of my role as a Visiting Journalism Fellow at City University, for tips on how to get started blogging. As someone who… Continue Reading
Just came across this interesting presentation, from October last year, by Neil Perkin, "Director of Marketing & Strategy for the commercial functions of IPC Media, the well known UK publisher of consumer magazines and associated websites": Content And Community View… Continue Reading
[I originally posted this on the Headshift Blog last week where it got a lot of attention and some useful comments. It was also re-blogged on Social Media Today where it has now been read nearly 2500 times.] User generated… Continue Reading
[I originally posted this on the Headshift blog last Thursday] Hot on the heels of my post yesterday about finding, aggregating and curating content from third party sources, including blogs and social media services, comes word of the Twitter Times… Continue Reading
[Originally posted to the Headshift blog last Friday] Most owners of social software systems use the data generated through usage in their reporting of metrics. So, alongside the standard metrics such as unique users, page impressions, time spent, etc, social… Continue Reading